Woodlands Historic Park True Bugs

Ant-mimicking Seed Bug (Daerlac cephalotes) at Woodlands Historic Park
Ant-mimicking Seed Bug, late January. (photo Andrew Allen)

See also photo of a nymph.

Classification

from Australian Faunal Directory

Order Hemiptera - bugs, hoppers and scale insects
Suborder Heteroptera - true bugs, 2806 named species in Australia
Family Rhyparochromidae - Dirt-colored Seed Bugs, 195 named species in Australia
Genus Daerlac
Species Daerlac cephalotes